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goodbye cruel blog

google is starting to reveal too much of my personal life, so no more blogger. with any luck, these rants will ignominiously pass into obscurity.

it was a quick way to post my blathering to the internet. now i'm going to post to my own web server, which only shows up as an intermittent ad-hoc network, and completely lacks any DNS entry.

it is like screaming in to a barrel, but for all the good it has ever done to complain, at least it is cathartic..

i might also look into some other internet blogging system.. perhaps m&ms or Reebok will put up a web 2.0 site.. there are a million places on the internet to blog.. if i can find a site that looks like it will be really anonymous, then i may again take the opportunity to blat out my particular variety of blah.

not like the internet hate machine won't go on without me..

republican bipartisanism

reminds me of high school, when the football team would offer the geeks, "I'll be your friend if you just [something humiliating]."

then, when the geek is done, and asks if they are friends now, the jock goes, "I would never be friends with someone who would [something humiliating]."

Funny? i don't think so. Not exactly the plot of Revenge of the Nerds, either.

Can the Democratic Party please return to the procedures Tip O'Neill used? Yes, they would hate us, but they do that already.

Force the Filibuster!! The most devoted voters watch CSPAN. Make the republicans shoot their mouths in order to obstruct! The dedicated democratic participants will feel the stupid.

The rest of the voters aren't going to show up. Hardly anyone believes in democracy at this point, so independent voters just won't bother. Hard core party types, although only a fraction of the population, will decide the election. Most people will say, "Why bother?"

Especially republicans. They aren't motivated unless there is money in it for them.

down on Democratic Party?

Maybe you need a return to the days when you had to have this bumper sticker in order to justify your existence.

The artist John Prine wrote about it in 1971.

Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore
© John Prine

While digesting Reader's Digest
In the back of a dirty book store,
A plastic flag, with gum on the back,
Fell out on the floor.
Well, I picked it up and I ran outside
Slapped it on my window shield,
And if I could see old Betsy Ross
I'd tell her how good I feel.

Chorus:
But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
They're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.

Well, I went to the bank this morning
And the cashier he said to me,
"If you join the Christmas club
We'll give you ten of them flags for free."
Well, I didn't mess around a bit
I took him up on what he said.
And I stuck them stickers all over my car
And one on my wife's forehead.

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I got my window shield so filled
With flags I couldn't see.
So, I ran the car upside a curb
And right into a tree.
By the time they got a doctor down
I was already dead.
And I'll never understand why the man
Standing in the Pearly Gates said...

"But your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more.
We're already overcrowded
From your dirty little war.
Now Jesus don't like killin'
No matter what the reason's for,
And your flag decal won't get you
Into Heaven any more."

though times do change.. most of these bumper stickers got scratched off as veterans began returning, and demanded some real support from the decal bearers.

keep in mind, i love America, & especially the brave men and women who sacrifice to preserve our free state.